Tag Archives: Spring 2015

Dr. Willem J. Kolff: a great man

March 23, 2017

In Memoriam Willem J. Kolff: A great man George DUNEA President and CEO, Hektoen Institute of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Medical Director, Chicago Dialysis Center, Founding Chairman Emeritus, Division of Nephrology, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL (Spring 2015) Willem Kolff, often called the father of the artificial […]

A lesson in horizontality: El Hospital San Vicente de Paúl in Medellin, Colombia

February 23, 2017

Moisés Enghelberg Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine New York, New York, United States (Spring 2015) Fountain at the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl This is not the story about another hospital, rebuilt from rubble after an earthquake. It is not even a story about perseverance, as much as it is about putting the […]

Calibrating the messiah complex: a success and a failure

January 23, 2017

Daniel Luftig University of Virginia School of Medicine, United States (Spring 2015) It had been Fat’s delusion for years that he could help people. His psychiatrist once told him that to get well he would have to do two things; get off dope (which he hadn’t done) and stop trying to help people (he still […]